Josh Groban And Lucas Steele: Double Your Pleasure
Josh Groban and Lucas Steele from The Great Comet, a musical based on Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace, share what makes their show unique, from audience interaction to immersive sound design.
Even multi-platinum singer-songwriters like Josh Groban can learn new things about their voice. Groban tells host Ophira Eisenberg that that's exactly what happened during his stint as the titular Pierre in the Broadway musical, based on 70 pages of Leo Tolstoy's "All my life and career I was training my voice to have this more pure, classically trained, technically sounding voice...Pierre is decidedly not those things...He's very rough around the edges." To portray this character, Groban learned how to safely add a gruffness to his voice, which he said was an opportunity to stretch his boundaries that made "one of the greatest creative experiences of my life."
